Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Wednesday, December 4th

Here’s what we announced today: Amplify DataStore – This is a persistent, on-device storage repository that will help you to synchronize data across devices and to handle offline operations. It can be used as a standalone local datastore for web and mobile applications that have no connection to the cloud or an AWS account. When […]

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Amplify DataStore – Simplify Development of Offline Apps with GraphQL

The open source Amplify Framework is a command line tool and a library allowing web & mobile developers to easily provision and access cloud based services. For example, if I want to create a GraphQL API for my mobile application, I use amplify add api on my development machine to configure the backend API. After […]

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ShiftLeft and CircleCI Strengthen DevOps Security by Inserting Code Analysis as Far Left as Developer Pull Requests

New Partnership and Product Integration Delivers the Industry’s Fastest and Most Accurate Vulnerability Scanning at One of the Earliest Stages in the CI/CD Pipeline SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec 04, 2019 ShiftLeft Inc., an innovator in automated application security, today announced a partnership and deep integration with CircleCI that enables organizations to insert security directly into developer pull […]

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AWS Applies Machine Learning to Optimize Cloud Deployments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at its re:Invent 2019 conference unfurled two tools based on machine learning algorithms to optimize cloud application deployments. Amazon CodeGuru is a service available as a preview, through which the cloud service provider will inspect application code using machine learning algorithms to profile the code and then identify bottlenecks […]

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Predict 2020: What Will the New Year Bring?

With the holiday season upon us, our thoughts naturally turn to the next year and what it has in store for us. Will we come into more money? Will we find true happiness? Will there be better integration between DevOps and security? Will there be more Kubernetes instances? The first two may be a little […]

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Test Automation Is the Single Most Important Factor in Accelerating Innovation, Say 90% of IT Leaders

Independent Survey Finds Manual Testing a Major Impediment to Business Success,Yet Only 7% of Organizations Automate Tests on Mainframe Code 77% of organizations find it increasingly difficult to increase quality, velocity and efficiency to meet innovation goals when developing and testing mainframe application code. 53% of application development managers say the time required to conduct […]

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The ApacheⓇ Software Foundation Welcomes CloudBees as its Newest Targeted Sponsor at the Platinum Level

Donation of Continuous Delivery Software Services Helps Support Apache Infrastructure, Projects, and Communities   Wakefield, MA, and DevOps World | Jenkins World Lisbon, Portugal — 4 December 2019 — The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that CloudBees has become […]

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AWS Launches & Previews at re:Invent 2019 – Tuesday, December 3rd

Whew, what a day. This post contains a summary of the announcements that we made today. Launch Blog Posts Here are detailed blog posts for the launches: AWS Outposts Now Available – Order Your Racks Today! Inf1 Instances with AWS Inferentia Chips for High Performance Cost-Effective Inferencing. EBS Direct APIs – Programmatic Access to EBS […]

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New – AWS Step Functions Express Workflows: High Performance & Low Cost

We launched AWS Step Functions at re:Invent 2016, and our customers took to the service right away, using them as a core element of their multi-step workflows. Today, we see customers building serverless workflows that orchestrate machine learning training, report generation, order processing, IT automation, and many other multi-step processes. These workflows can run for […]

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New – Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions

It’s really true that time flies, especially when you don’t have to think about servers: AWS Lambda just turned 5 years old and the team is always looking for new ways to help customers build and run applications in an easier way. As more mission critical applications move to serverless, customers need more control over the performance […]

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